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Stop researching every aspect of it and reading all about it and debating the pros and cons of it, Start doing it.
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Reading Start
Staying ahead of the curve prevents a leader from being overwhelmed when pressure is applied and enables greater decisiveness.
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Decision Force Greatness Leadership Stay
The infamous they.
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Famous One Liner
The goal of leadership seems simple: to get people to do what they need to do to support the mission and the team.
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Friendship Goal Simplicity Support Team
Leaders must accept total responsibility, own problems that inhibit performance, and develop solutions to those problems.
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Acceptance Development Leadership Problem Responsibility
Departments and groups within the team must break down silos, depend on each other and understand who depends on them.
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Break Independent Team Understand
The only meaningful measure for a leader is whether the team succeeds or fails.
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Failure Success Team
That’s it. When things are going bad: Don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated. No. Just look at the issue and say: Good.
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Bad Goodness Issue
The most impressive thing about this improvement in performance was that it did not come from a major process change or an advance in technology. Instead, it came through a leadership principle that has been around for ages: Simple.
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Age Change Improvement Leadership Simplicity Technology
A leader must lead but also be ready to follow. Sometimes, another member of the team—perhaps a subordinate or direct report—might be in a better position to develop a plan, make a decision, or lead through a specific situation.
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Decision Development Leadership Team
The greatest of these was the recognition that leadership is the most important factor on the battlefield, the single greatest reason behind the success of any team.
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Greatness Leadership Team
After all, there can be no leadership where there is no team.
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Leadership Team
A good leader has nothing to prove, but everything to prove.
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Deep Goodness Leadership
When it comes to standards, as a leader, it’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.
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Leadership Philosophy Tolerance
Good leaders are rare; bad leaders are common.
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Bad Goodness Leadership
Generally, when a leader struggles, the root cause behind the problem is that the leader has leaned too far in one direction and steered off course. Awareness.
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Direction Leader Problem Struggle

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